“Arise and shine forth that thy light may be a standard to the Nations”

This is a mock up of the bulletin board I came up with:

(laid out on my black kitchen island.

It will look better on the gray/tan board in our class room)

Let me break it down for you. I called it “Pinlight” in refrence to Pinterest. (If you don’t know what Pinterest is, check out a Post I wrote HERE)

I made the board creater Jesus Christ. He has had aproxamatly 2.2 billion followers (according to Wikipedia) and he follows You (everyone). To follow him I made social icon buttons for prayer, scripture study, and the temple.

I made up around 60 “pins”. Each one has a photo with a label below it. I used the YW Values, For the Strength of Youth, LDS.org, and this years lesson schedule to determine the topics.

Each week a young woman is assigned the spiritual thought. She can pick which “Pin” she relates to out of the jar. Then, she writes her name on the line and picks her photo sticker and sticks it in the box (I am making them from camp photos I took last year and running them off on address label stickers I have and then cut them to size). Then the young woman would explain how the “pin” shows an example of someone who shined their light or how it can help the young woman shine her light.

She would then pin her “pin” to the bulletin board like the layout below.

I printed my Pinlight Pins pages on cardstock from my own computer but they could be sent to Kinko’s or Costco depending on your situation. I also included a few blanks if you would like to make your own. After they are printed, spend a little time getting to know your paper cutter either at home or in your ward library. It doesn’t take too long (tip: cut the outside edges off first, then the vertical lines next, then the rest of the edges)

I love your idea and the icons are wonderful. You are really creative and talented. There is one icon that I don’t get…that is the Pearls before Swine with the caption Pioneers. I don’t understand how Pioneers relates to the icon. Can you explain what the link is?
Thanks!

I would love to use this idea but I can. Not get it to load the pins on my computer. Any suggestions on how to get them to open and print? I would like to send them to Costco to print also. I really wanted this by the first Sunday in January Thanks

I absolutely LOVE this idea! I am so excited to make this for our YW. I love that it allows the girls to show their personality in giving a spiritual thought! Thank you so much for sharing. You are amazing!
PS- Can I get them in jpeg format. I am a fan of printing as photos!
Thank You!!

Love this! I just got called as the YW Pres. and I need all the help I can get. Could you please email me the jpegs however? My printer uses too much ink so I’d like to go to Costco. Thank you again! I’m so greatfull for people like you!

Thanks so much for this! I love it! I was really looking for things to improve my girls’ knowledge of the standards. I have many non-members who come Wed. and Sun. and I need to teach the standards as often as possible. I would love the jpegs too please. I will be following you for more awesome ideas.

Thank you for all your hard work and effort in putting this great idea together. I’m going to start this on Sunday and I hope the girls like the idea as much as I do. Thank you also for making it available to all of us. THANK YOU!!!

LOVE this idea! I am doing this for YW for the year. I am using a few of yours, but I am not computer savy and am not sure how to do this but I need an idea for… Sabbath Day Observance, Work and Self-Reliance, Go forward with faith, Agency & Accountability, Entertainment & Media, Friends, Language, Choice & Accountability, Good Works and Virtue. ANY ideas will be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much for your super creative ideas and for sharing them with us!

Lacey,
I honestly Googled many of the key words till I found an image I liked. I also went to LDS.org’s media page and used some of their photos and put a tag on them. I love the words you came up with. I’ll see if I can come up with a few more pins using them. Give me some time, I’ll get them up in a few weeks.
Amanda

Wow! The support for this project has been overwhelming! If you want the JPEGS, I added them at the bottom of the post for easy downloading. I would love to know where in the world everyone that downloads this is from! If you wouldn’t mind leaving a comment as to where you are, state or country are enough, that would be awesome! I had an email for the JPEGs for Bejing China!!! Thanks for checking out my Pinlight board
Amanda

Ashland,Ohio
I love the idea and would like to use it for the year. I, also, cannot download the jpegs. I know you must be a very busy lady! Is it possible for you to send it to my email as an attachment? I am grateful that you are so blessed with many talents!

I love this! The idea is brilliant and the pictures are stunning. I am not in YW, but I am going to use this for FHE. I plan to take out a few of the pins that my children wouldn’t be as familiar with. Thank you so much for sharing all of your files. I, of course, Pinned It! (Utah)

I especially like the picture of the Salt Lake temple with the overlay saying “If this isn’t your castle then you’re not my handsome prince.” I wondered if I could just print those out on 5×7 or 8×10 photo paper for my YW?

Jen,
I did not make up ANY of the pins for the Pinlight board. I found them all by Googling or searching Pinterest key words and adding them to the board. There are some very creative and talented graphic artists out there. Try searching for the original in order to get a great quality image.
Amanda

Just found this and LOVED it! I would like to change it a bit and make it into a gratitude board for families to use at Thanksgiving. We would do this as a Super Saturday project for our ward. I saw that there were blank pin cards at the end of the file. How do you go about adding a picture and title on those? There are many we can already use, but need to have some that are geared to younger Primary children. Thank you!

I LOVED this idea but want to adapt it to Super Saturday Thanksgiving project with some additional pictures for primary age children. It would be a gratitude board and add a picture a day during November. How do you add pictures and text to the templates at the bottom of the file?

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